Becoming Who We Wish to Be

 

It seems we can’t do much about

The person we were yesterday

And who we wish to be is formed

Not in some future far away

But to become who we avow

Begins with who we are right now

What’s done is done; we cannot change

The past or follies sealed therein

What is to be we cannot see

But now, the moment we are in

Is filled with opportunity

To become who we wish to be

We cannot pry hope from the sky

Or drink again the cup of youth

But we are wise to be aware

Of this oft-tried and proven truth

Who we become when we are old

Is formed within Now’s moment-mold

© Janet Martin

Don't you admire those kind and gentle elderly people? When we would exclaim how lovely our grandmother was then my mother would remind us 'she didn't become that way when she was old. If we want to be a nice 'old person' we need to begin long before we are old'. Yes, so true!